The Kindness of Strangers
Subtitle: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521652872
Subjects: Child welfare; Volunteer Work; Sociology; Private Welfare Work; Services For Youth; Social Science; Voluntarism; USA; Sociology - Urban; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Work; Mentoring - United States; Political Science-Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Social Science / Social Work; Social Science-Sociology - Urban; Volunteer workers in social service; Services for; United States; Urban youth
First sentence: On April 19, 1989, Washington Post columnist Dorothy Gilliam issued a wake-up call to the decent people of Washington, D.C., challenging them to open their eyes, roll up their sleeves, and join in a battle to win back the hearts of the inner-city youth.